On Sun, 3 Nov 2013, Reco wrote:
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 13:20:51 +0400
From: Reco <recovery...@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Cc: Itay <deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: Why syslog is not rotating?
Resent-Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 09:21:12 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 09:04:36 +0200 (IST)
Itay <deb...@itayf.fastmail.fm> wrote:
On Sat, 2 Nov 2013, Sven Hartge wrote:
Thank you for your reply.
My system was continuously on except for very short random periods and
3 weeks on Aug 2013. In contrast, the listing below shows (I believe)
that syslog stopped rotating at 2010.
# ls -gh /var/log/syslog*
-rw-r----- 1 adm 219M Nov 2 21:50 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 adm 2.5K Jun 5 2010 syslog.1
-rw-r----- 1 adm 0 Nov 1 07:50 syslog.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 adm 661 Jun 5 2010 syslog.2.gz
However:
I checked /etc/cron.daily and did not find entry for rsyslog.
Maybe that's the cause?
On a stock Debian system logrotate is used to rotate rsyslog
logfiles. This is configured in /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog.
Logrotate is invoked at /etc/cron.daily/logrotate.
Now, that listing shows that someone (possibly logrotate) DID create an
empty syslog.1.gz file (on 1st Nov 2013), and that suggests that
logrotate is misconfigured somehow.
Can you please post a contents of /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog?
Reco
Reposting:
----------[Begin: /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog]----------
/var/log/syslog
{
rotate 7
daily
missingok
notifempty
delaycompress
compress
postrotate
invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null
endscript
}
/var/log/mail.info
/var/log/mail.warn
/var/log/mail.err
/var/log/mail.log
/var/log/daemon.log
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/auth.log
/var/log/user.log
/var/log/lpr.log
/var/log/cron.log
/var/log/debug
/var/log/messages
{
rotate 4
weekly
missingok
notifempty
compress
delaycompress
sharedscripts
postrotate
invoke-rc.d rsyslog rotate > /dev/null
endscript
}
----------[End: /etc/logrotate.d/rsyslog]----------
I appreciate the help.
Itay
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